The end of summer in Northern Europe brings with it three key events for the yachting industry with Cannes, Southampton and Monaco all holding important shows. Continuing a busy 2019 season the Oceanskies team will be attending all three of these ‘must do’ shows and we are looking forward to meeting new and [...]Find Out More

In a welcome development, the UK Ship Register has announced a widening of eligibility criteria in order to open up the UK Register of Ships register to a global audience of international owners. Access to the UK Ship Register has previously been restricted to citizens and companies from ‘British’ and ‘EU’ countries. With [...]Find Out More

We are pleased to invite all existing and future clients together with our friends and colleagues from the marine and aviation industries to our stand at this year’s Cannes Festival of Yachting. Our stand (PAN 148) is located in the heart of the show in the outdoor Pantero section of the [...]Find Out More

Oceanskies is looking forward to the start of the winter show season with the Paris Boat Show and the Antigua Charter Yacht Show both taking place in December. Tom Becker, who is a native French speaker, will be attending the Paris Boat Show from 1st to 3rd of December held at [...]Find Out More

The Red Ensign Group have today used the platform of The Superyacht Forum hosted by the Superyacht Group in Amsterdam to launch a new consolidated code of practice for the safety and operation of large commercial yachts over 24 metres in length designed to synchronise the Large Yacht Code (known as “LY3”) and the [...]Find Out More

The Red Ensign Group has announced that it is working on a new code of practice for the safety and operation of large commercial yachts designed to merge the Large Yacht Code (known as “LY3”) and the Passenger Yacht Code (known as “PYC”) into one consolidated framework. The Red Ensign Group is the [...]Find Out More

For the winter season we are pleased to include a free tonnage survey as part of our very popular fixed fee British flag offshore company ownership and yacht registration package for private yachts under 24 metres in registered length. To qualify for the free tonnage survey the vessel must be located within the EU, (non-EU [...]Find Out More

Introduction With over 2,000 yachts on its register the British Channel Island of Jersey is one of the most popular ports of registry for yachts in the world. Oceanskies is a Channel Island based yacht documentation agency that is responsible for a significant percentage of yacht registrations in Jersey. We have written this [...]Find Out More

Carving & Marking is an important stage of the yacht registration process and it is the purposes of this guide to provide further information on how to successfully complete these formalities. The initial stages of the registration process will have seen the registry approving the name of the vessel and then subsequently receiving the yacht owner’s [...]Find Out More

The Isle of Man have added Switzerland and Monaco to the list of countries that qualify to register yachts on the Isle of Man ship register following recent changes made to the island’s shipping laws. The changes extend the list of qualified owners already approved, to include citizens, bodies corporate incorporated in Monaco [...]Find Out More